化学专业英语知识.ppt

Lesson 2 THE CLASSIFICATION OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 无机化合物分类;chemist 化学家;litmus 石蕊 ; The Classes of Compounds 1.Thousands and tens of thousands of compounds are known to the chemist today. It would be impossible to learn properties and behavior of even a fraction of this number if it had to be done on the basis of individual compounds. Fortunately, most chemical compounds can be grouped together in a few classes. Then, if we can properly classify a compound, we are at once aware of the general properties of the compound from knowledge of the properties of t